Functional Description SiWT917 on Raspberry Pi4#

SiWT917 enables Raspberry Pi with Wi-Fi capability. We will enable W-Fi support on the Raspberry Pi 4 board using the SiWT917 Single band Wi-Fi + Bluetooth low energy using the SDIO interface.

Setup DiagramSetup Diagram

In the above figure the user needs to connect the SiWT917 RCP module to a Raspberry Pi 4 running Raspberry Pi 4 OS through the Raspberry Pi connector (40 PIN header). The Raspberry Pi should have a kernel version installed between 3.18 to 6.1. To evaluate STA mode, an external standard wlan access point is needed.

Advantages#

Wi-Fi capability on target platform, which can be used to use for network connectivity.

Use Cases#

Enabling Wi-Fi support on the target platform will be used as STA Mode.